Lithodryas is a prehistoric genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae[1]. It was introduced as a replacement for Samuel Hubbard Scudder's genus Lithopsyche, which is invalid as a homonym, as another fossil lepidopteran genus had been described under the same name shortly before Scudder established his genus.
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| Genus: | †Lithodryas Cockerell, 1909
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| Species: | †L. styx
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| Lithodryas styx (Scudder, 1889)
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The type species was found in Latest Eocene-aged deposits at Florissant.[2]
References
edit- ^ Savela, Markku. "Lithodryas Cockerell, 1909".
- ^ Natural History Museum; Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul (2023). "Lithodryas Cockerell, 1909". Butterflies and Moths of the World: Generic Names and Their Type-species. Natural History Museum. doi:10.5519/s93616qw. Retrieved April 6, 2010.
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